ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Kate and Michael sit down with special guest, Alexis Sears, and talk about her recent collection Out of Order, formal poetry, being casual like a hot dog, and so much more! Prepare yourself for a huge gush-sesh, as Kate & Michael cannot contain themselves when they are in the presence of greatness!
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Kate Hanson Foster
Michael Schmeltzer
Special Guest Alexis Sears
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Work referenced in this episode:
Alexis Sears Out of Order from Autumn House Press https://www.autumnhouse.org/books/out-of-order/
W.S. Merwin “Separation” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/28891/separation-56d21285b2140
Miller Williams Patterns of Poetry, An Encyclopedia of Forms https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/566952.Patterns_of_Poetry
Name Drops:
Clint Margrave
Richie Hoffman
Greg Williamson
Randall Mann
Marilyn Hacker
Jean Valentine
Robert Frost
William Shakespeare
Langston Hughes
Matthew Nienow
Alexis Sears is the author of Out of Order, winner of the 2021 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and the Poetry by the Sea Book Award: Best Book of 2022. Her work appears in Best American Poetry, Poet Lore, Cortland Review, Cimarron Review, Rattle, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BA in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University. She lives in Los Angeles. More about Alexis: https://www.alexissears.com/about-the-author
Kate Hanson Foster is the author of Crow Funeral (EastOver Press 2022) and Mid Drift, finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in 2011. A recent recipient of the NEA Sustainable Arts Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, she lives and writes in Groton, Massachusetts.
Michael Schmeltzer's most recent book of poetry, Empire of Surrender, is the winner of the 2021 Wandering Aengus Book Award. Along with Meghan McClure, he is the co-author of the nonfiction book A Single Throat Opens, a lyric exploration of addiction and family. His debut full-length Blood Song was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Poetry, the Julie Suk Award, and the Coil Book Award.
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